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sealing a bulkhead, no sump necessary. & Fig. 8 puffer
stkg./sel. 12/6/11
Dear Crew,
Greetings and happy holidays! I've been searching the site
for the last couple of hours, but couldn't find anything related to
my particular query.
I have a 40 gallon breeder that I had planned to use as a reef
tank, but am now looking at doing brackish or planted setup
instead. The tank is drilled in the bottom panel, in the
rear-left corner, but I don't really need to utilize a sump as
I'm planning on two Hagen AquaClear's for filtration.
It's been water tested over the last few days using only a ball
valve to stop it from draining, but I was looking for more of a long
term solution to sealing this unnecessary hole. Any thoughts?
<Can you not simply seal off this/any drainage holes in the
tank, e.g., with small bits of glass and aquarium-grade
silicone? Silicone is nice because you can cut it away if
needs be, freeing up the holes should you need them down the
road.>
Also, in looking into the brackish system, I have developed an interest
in Figure 8 puffers, but have read conflicting
information re temperament, compatibility, and minimum tank
sizes. If keeping these and bumble bee gobies, how many would be
recommended without overloading my tank and causing aggression
issues.
<Figure-8s are generally easy to keep. As a base-line stocking
density, allow 20 gallons for the first specimen, then another 10
gallons per additional specimen. With good water quality you might be
able to keep one or two more. A low salinity is fine, so plants are an
option, e.g., SG 1.002-1.003, with appropriate salt-tolerant plants
like Vallisneria, hardy Crypts, some of the Crinum species, and so on.
They do work well with Bumblebees, but these gobies are fussy feeders,
so research that aspect carefully. Figure-8s are territorial but not
especially aggressive. They are fin-nippers though, so cannot really be
recommended for community tanks. That said, some folks have kept them
with pushy, fast-moving tankmates like Orange Chromides, Monos and
Scats.>
Thanks for all of the resources you provide,
Dustin
<You're welcome, Neale.>
Pufferfish (again!) Hi Bob, Please accept my apologies for
burdening you with yet another Pufferfish question! <Okay> I
recently obtained an attractive 30 UK gal tank as a gift and I have
chosen to be boring and fill it with brackish puffers as with all my
other tanks! <Nice gift> I have heard from various sources
that keeping two puffers together results in one being dominant and
bullying the other to death whereas keeping them in a small group would
ease the one on one bullying as it has in my 150gal puffer tank. My
proposed stocking ideas for my 30 gal is either two figure eights
puffers or one green spotted puffer on its own (or if I have any luck,
a Ceylon Puffer!) Would it be wiser for me to add 3 figure of eights so
its more of a group? <Yes> Or would it be better to go for
just one larger fish such as a Green Spotted rather than keeping
several Figure of eights together in a small tank? Many thanks for your
advice once again, <Worth trying the group first. Do keep an eye
out, perhaps a phone call in to suppliers for "oddball"
puffers in their imported shipments... from Africa, Asia... there are
very often "contaminants"... not-listed species mixed in...
Bob Fenner> Kris
Which Puffer, F8 or GSP? 12/25/04 Hi
<Hi, Pufferpunk here> I was thinking of getting a puffer (spotted
or figure eight) I would love it if you could give me some tips and
guide me to setting up my brackish aquarium, like what size of tank I
would need, what kind of substrate, and some things to feed them. And
any other thing that you could think of. If you could help it would be
awesome <Of course. 2 of my favorite BW
species! Here is a great article on the figure 8 (Tetraodon
biocellatus): http://www.aaquaria.com/aquasource/8puffer.shtml
& the green spotted puffer (T nigroviridis): http://www.wetwebmedia.com/BrackishSubWebIndex/gspsart.htm Everything
you should need to know is those articles. Write back with
any other questions you may have. ~PP>